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India is Asia’s multicultural melting pot, with something for everyone to enjoy. Tourists are free to enjoy the incredible architecture of the Taj Mahal, the hustle and bustle of cities like Delhi and Mumbai, the breath-taking rural nature reserves, the splendour of the Himalayas and the awesome caves of Ajanta.

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Visitors to India come expecting a vibrant, lively holiday filled with unforgettable experiences – but they can end up having their holidays ruined with sudden illness, accident or injury.

Illness among tourists is common in India – many tourists pursuing compensation claims report symptoms including diarrhoea and vomiting, with the causes traced back to contaminated food, dirty swimming pools and local drinking water.

Popular destinations in India include: Goa, Kerala, Mumbai and Delhi.

Common holiday accidents in India:

Slips/trips around the hotel

Slipping accidents around the buffets in hotel restaurants

Slips/trips around the hotel swimming pool

Lacerations caused by broken tiles in and around the hotel swimming pool

Quad biking accidents

Water sports accidents including kite surfing, snorkelling and boat trips.

Holiday illnesses in India are generally caused by poorly prepared food or consuming tap water which can cause food poisoning. Serious cases can be caused by:

Campylobacter

Cryptosporidium

Salmonella

Serious illness can include:

Dysentery

Gastroenteritis

Giardia lamblia (generally caused by unclean swimming pool water)

Accidents and injuries can also occur while out and about in India. The densely populated cities of Delhi and Mumbai have very busy roads, and those unfamiliar with the traffic patterns and driving style can easily become involved in car accidents. We’ve also been involved with clients who have suffered slips and trips in their hotels, at local airports or while on excursions, through no fault of their own.

At Your Legal Friend, our team of personal injury experts are on hand to help you make a compensation claim if you’ve fallen ill or been involved in an accident in India. We understand that being injured or spending time in hospital in a foreign country can be incredibly stressful – not to mention expensive, with many places demanding medical fees upfront before treatment will be administered.

With a 95% success rate in personal injury cases, we’re confident we can secure a positive result for you and your family. Our no-win, no-fee guarantee also means you won’t pay a penny unless we are successful in winning your case and recovering the compensation you deserve. Get in touch with our team today to find out more.

Here’s how Your Legal Friend can help you:

No win, no fee - guaranteed

95% success rate in personal injury claims

Over £200,000,000 successfully won in the last ten years alone

Help and support you with your claim against the travel company or carrier

30 years’ experience in personal injury compensation

Talk to us today

For an informal, confidential chat with one of our expert personal injury solicitors about making a claim, call us now on 0808 301 8778 (call free from landlines and mobiles). Or just complete the 'Start a new claim’ option on the right and we'll call you straight back.

India is a multicultural melting pot that has attracted tourists from all over the world for centuries. The climate, the incredible food, the multitude of nature reserves and the hospitality go a long way towards keeping this country at the top of holiday hotspot lists. But for some unfortunate tourists, their trip to India can end up a nightmare as a result of injury or illness. Here are some of the most common complaints from holidaymakers visiting India:

Infections, travel bugs, sickness

India is home to the famous ‘Delhi belly’ – a sickness suffered be tourists that are unaccustomed to levels of contamination in regular food. This illness can be caused by food, water or even simply unwashed hands, and it can be debilitating for those who suffer badly with it.

Pool areas in hotels can also be badly contaminated, especially if they’re not cleaned and maintained regularly. Illnesses picked up around hotel pools in India can result in sufferers having to lie low in their hotel rooms until they’ve recovered.

Slips and trips

India’s hotels are palatial and grand – but many of them have marble or tiled lobbies and corridors that are a common cause of slips and trips. The elderly and the very young can easily lose their balance on these slippery floors – especially if there is no signage warning of spillages or broken tiles.

Road traffic accidents

India’s main cities are among some of the most densely populated on Earth, and using the roads to get from A to B can be incredibly dangerous. There is a real lack of road safety in India, and tourists who are unaccustomed to these conditions can be at risk even when doing something as simple as crossing the road at a designated point.

Here’s how Your Legal Friend can help you:

Help and support you with your claim against the travel company or carrier

No win, no fee - guaranteed

95% success rate in personal injury claims

Over £200,000,000 successfully won in the last ten years alone

30 years’ experience in personal injury compensation

Talk to us today

For an informal, confidential chat with one of our expert personal injury solicitors about making a claim, call us now on 0808 278 7431 (call free from landlines and mobiles). Or just complete the 'Start a new claim’ option on the right and we'll call you straight back.

Alison Saul, Director of Personal Injury leads our Personal Injury and Road Accident teams. A fully qualified solicitor with over 15 years of experience and expertise, Alison is dedicated to achieving the highest levels of compensation for her clients as well as ensuring high quality client care.

Alison is assisted by her team managers, Philip Waters Lee Quinn, Jenna Hargreaves, and Kathryn Langton. Philip, Lee, and Jenna lead legal teams focussing on Road Traffic Accident cases while Kathyrn leads our Personal Injury team. Together they have a wealth of experience in personal injury compensation.

There are many people injured in accidents each year through no fault of their own and the circumstances will be difference in each instance. Our team has extensive experience of successfully managing a wide range of personal injury claims, so we can help you secure the maximim compensation you deserve.

Alison Saul,Director of Personal Injury

Philip, a qualified solicitor, has over 18 years’ experience in personal injury compensation. Having previously worked for a large insurance company, he has extensive insights in how to engage effectively with insurers to achieve the level of compensation our clients deserve. Philip deals with cases of high value, complex cases, and recently secured £1.6 million in compensation for one of his clients who suffered catastrophic injuries in a road accident.

Lee has over 15 years’ specialist experience in Personal Injury claims and also manages a wide variety of high value, complex cases. Lee has extensive experience of working with insurance companies, acting for both claimants and defendants, and so understands how to secure the highest levels of compensation for the victims of road traffic accidents.

Jenna is a qualified solicitor and has studied to become a barrister. Jenna leads the internal reviews of our case management processes to ensure excellent, efficient case handling and high levels of client satisfaction.

Kathryn, also a qualiied solicitor, specialises in accidents at work, public liability and accidents abroad. Kathryn deals with a wide variety of cases, often including accidents that involve serious, complex injuries.

Talk to us today

For an informal, confidential chat with one of our expert personal injury solicitors about making a claim, call us now on 0808 149 4227 (call free from landlines and mobiles). Or just complete the 'Start a new claim’ option on the right and we'll call you straight back.

For most people, a compensation claim isn’t an everyday occurrence so we thought it would be helpful to explain how we manage your claim and the steps that we both need to go through.

Step 1 - Obtaining a full description of your accident or illness

We need to understand as much as possible about your accident or illness – exactly how it happened or what caused you to be ill and why, the injuries you suffered, what happened immediately afterwards and how your life has been affected as a result.

Step 2 - Obtaining your medical records

We will ask your GP and hospital for your full medical records so that we can establish the extent of your injuries or illness, the treatment you received, and how long it will take you to recover. If your treatment was carried out abroad, we can obtain and, if need be, translate those records.

Step 3 - Contacting the company responsible for your accident or illness

Once we have decided who is responsible for your accident or illness, we will inform them that you intend to claim compensation and send them the details you have provided. We will let you know their response and, if they dispute the case, we will ask you to provide your comments on their response.

Step 4 - Arranging your medical assessment

We will arrange for an independent clinician to evaluate the extent of your illness or injuries and whether they will affect your ability to work in the short or long term. In holiday illness claims, it may sometimes be possible to obtain a “desktop” report that can be done based on your witness statement and any medical records so that you don’t have to go for a medical examination.

Step 5 - Collating details of your financial loss

In addition to compensation for your injuries or illness, you can claim for another other expenses you have incurred as a result, including lost earnings, expenses travelling to medical appointments, and the cost of care and help with everyday tasks.

Step 6 - Providing you with our valuation of your losses

Once we have received all your medical reports, we can provide a valuation for your illness, injuries and associated losses. We will send this to you along with your medical report. You then need to complete and sign the medical slip and schedule of losses and return them to us.

Step 7 - Sending your valuation to the other party's insurer

Once we have received your signed medical slip and schedule of losses, we send these to the defendant’s insurer and ask for their best offer to settle the case. Often the insurance company takes 4 – 6 weeks to get back to us.

Step 8 - Negotiating the maximum settlement possible

We work hard to achieve the maximum possible settlement for your case, which can take some time to negotiate. So we text and email you to keep you up to date with our progress.

Step 9 - Issuing Court proceedings

If the defendant’s insurer refuses to make a realistic offer, then we issue Court proceedings for a hearing. It is very unlikely that you need to attend this hearing, so there’s no need to worry about it.

Step 10 - Sending you your compensation payment

Once we receive your compensation payment from the defendant’s insurer, we let you know. Most important of all, we send you your compensation payment straight away!

How long does a claim take?

Because the circumstances surrounding every claim and their effects are different, it’s very difficult to give a definitive answer on how long it takes to settle a claim. Often it depends on how quickly our clients provide us with essential information, how quickly we can get medical records and assessments, and whether the insurance companies are willing to provide realistic offers to settle the claims.

Whilst we aim to settle your claim as quickly as possible, we also want to ensure we secure the maximum compensation for you. This often means we have to do some hard negotiation with the defendants – which takes extra time. Our aim is to balance progressing the claim as fast as possible with getting you the maximum settlement.

We realise that you’ll be keen to know about the progress of your claim so we will send you regular emails and texts to keep you up to date, and also to remind you if there is any information we’re waiting for from you.

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